Challenge

The McDonald County School District had recently completed Phase I of their facility improvement plan with CTS and looked to CTS again to continue the process with Phase II. The energy savings obtained with the Performance Contract scenario allowed the district to move forward with improvement to additional campuses.

Project Overview

CTS continued the retrofit of the outdated and wasteful systems which result in substantial energy and operational savings that are used to fund the improvements. The project included retrofits at four buildings within the district.

• Roofing on the High School gym roof was replaced with the same energy efficient system with leak-free guarantees that was used in Phase I at the High School.
• Noisy, inadequate and inefficient HVAC conditions were replaced with new energy efficient units with full economizers for proper ventilation.
• Air conditioning was added to areas that previously had none.
• CTS installed a building automation system on new and existing mechanical equipment providing direct digital control of the facilities’ mechanical systems. The system includes an intelligent workstation with a full suite of tools to view and control subsystems, access and analyze data, manage equipment operations and reports directly from the desktop. The system communicates via the district’s LAN to provide energy management including equipment scheduling, monitoring, alarm handling and trending.
• Fire alarm systems were upgraded to meet present ADA requirements which included the addition of strobes in all classrooms.

Project Results

“We had worked very successfully with The CTS Team on Phase I of our improvement project and knew that they were the right choice to continue with our improvements. The energy savings and performance contract approach to our needs again allowed us to continue to improve our learning environments and meet our growing enrollment while saving cost. Our work with CTS has been very positive and I would recommend them to other districts.”

Randy Smith, Superintendent